a bank robbery at Brookline Savings Bank at 43 Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands at approximately 2 p.m.

Lt. Bruce Apotheker said a 6-foot, 200-pound black man wearing a Red Sox cap, dark colored jacket and blue jeans entered the bank and passed a note to a teller demanding money. No weapon was shown, but the man was given an undetermined amount of cash and fled the bank down Lincoln Street.

The man apparently turned down Columbus Avenue and lost some of the cash, Apotheker said. A dye pack put in with the man's sack of money exploded, and employees at neighboring 51 Lincoln reported seeing purple-colored bills fluttering around the street. Police recovered the money.